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  Fossil Orders of Insects ©

• Blattinopsoda Rasnitsyn, 1906 (as Blattinopseida) (use Protoblattaria)
• Caloneurodea Handlirsch, 1937 (as Caloneuroidea)
• Diaphonapterodea Handlirsch, 1919 (as Diaphanoptrodea)
• Glosselytrodea Martynov, 1938
• Meganisoptera Martynov, 1932 (= Protodonata Brongniart, 1893)
• Megasecoptera Brongniart, 1885 (as Megasecopterida), s.s.
• Miomoptera Martynov, 1927
• Monura Sharov, 1957
• Paleodictyoptera Goldenberg, 1887 (misreported as 1854)
• Paraplecoptera Martynov, 1938
• Permothemistida Sinishenkova, 1980 (= Archodonata Martynov, 1932 (Kukalová-Peck, 1991))
• Protelytroptera Tillyard, 1931 (= Protocoleoptera Tillyard, 1924)
• Protoblattaria Handlirsch, 1906 (as Protoblattoidea) (= Blattinopsoda Rasnitsyn, 1906 (as Blattinopseida), in part)
• Protodonata Brongniart, 1893 use Meganisoptera
• Titanoptera Sharov, 1968

Alternative Order Names ©

These order names generally see less usage than the synonyms listed next to them. Some of these names are more widely used in certain regions and others are of more archaic usage.

• Archaeognatha Börner, 1904, use Microcoryphia
• Blattodea Brunner, 1882, use Blattaria
• Corrodentia Burmeister, 1838, s.s. use Psocoptera
• Dictyoptera Leach 1817 (as Dictuoptera) (= Mantodea + Blattaria, sometimes = Mantodea + Blattaria + Isoptera)
• Embioptera Shipley, 1904, use Embiidina
• Entotropha Grassi, 1889, use Diplura
• Ephemeroptera Hyatt & Arms, 1890, use Ephemerida
• Notoptera Crampton, 1915, use Grylloblattaria
• Phasmatodea Brunner, 1893, use Phasmida
• Planipennia Latreille, 1817, (as Planipennes) use Neuroptera, s.s.
• Psocina Burmeister, 1829, use Psocoptera
• Zygentoma Börner, 1904, use Thysanura

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